Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

MARF is the 1980 Census counterpart of the Master
Enumeration District List (MEDList) prepared for the 1970 census. It
links state or state equivalent, county or county equivalent, minor
civil division (MCD)/census county division (CCD), and place names
with their respective geographic codes. It is also an abbreviated
summary file containing selected population and housing unit
counts. MARF 2 has the same geographic coverage as the first MARF and
includes the following additional information: FIPS place codes,
latitude and longitude coordinates for geographic areas down to the
BG/ED level, land area in square miles for geographic areas down to
the level of places or minor civil divisions (for 11 selected states)
with a population of 2,500 or more, total population and housing count
estimates based on sample returns, and per capital income for all
geographic areas included in the file. There are 51 files, one for
each state and the District of Columbia.

MARF is the 1980 Census counterpart of the Master
Enumeration District List (MEDList) prepared for the 1970 census. It
links state or state equivalent, county or county equivalent, minor
civil division (MCD)/census county division (CCD), and place names
with their respective geographic codes. It is also an abbreviated
summary file containing selected population and housing unit
counts. MARF 2 has the same geographic coverage as the first MARF and
includes the following additional information: FIPS place codes,
latitude and longitude coordinates for geographic areas down to the
BG/ED level, land area in square miles for geographic areas down to
the level of places or minor civil divisions (for 11 selected states)
with a population of 2,500 or more, total population and housing count
estimates based on sample returns, and per capital income for all
geographic areas included in the file. There are 51 files, one for
each state and the District of Columbia.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Master Area Reference File (MARF) 2. ICPSR08258-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08258.v1